After the tepid reception to KNIGHTRIDERS, George Romero needed a hit. Luckily, Hollywood had come calling, offering him the rights to a novel by a young writer named Stephen King.
While that project never came to fruition, King and Romero struck up a friendship and vowed to work with each other in the near future. Within a few years, they'd created one of the most renowned horror anthologies of all time, one that was a love letter to the EC Comics that they'd both grown up reading, 1982's CREEPSHOW.
CREEPSHOW also marked a new milestone in Tom Savini's career, as it gave him the opportunity to make not only gore effects, but full on articulated creature effects, something that would come in handy in his future films.
We've got all of the behind-the-scenes stories in this episode, plus a short dive into the history of EC Comics themselves!
Coming Up:
DAY OF THE DEAD (1985)
MONKEY SHINES (1988)
TWO EVIL EYES (1990)
- NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1990)
Theme Song: "There's Still a Little Bit of Time, If We Hurry and I Mean Hurry" by Slasher Film Festival Strategy.
This episode was written, produced and edited by Gary Horne & Justin Bishop, with special thanks to Todd Davis.
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